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Your Life's Work Discovered

Callings come in many ways, some unexpected.

Such events are more prevalent than one might expect. A 2006 Gallup poll of 1,004 adults, the most recent it has done on the subject, found that 33% of Americans said the following statement “applies completely” to them: “I have had a profound religious experience or awakening that changed the direction of my life.”

A sense of calling can come through a message, a realization or a series of unlikely synchronistic events.

People of all ages and faiths, agnostics and atheists, have such experiences, yet they rarely talk about them. Sometimes words fall short of conveying the intensity of what they felt.

“The study of spiritual experience is potentially one of the most important areas of research that may be pursued by science in the next decade” writes neuroscientist Andrew Newberg in a chapter of “Transformation of Brain Structure and Spiritual Experience.”They are asking questions like: Can we distinguish between actual callings and delusions? Is a feeling of being called good for you, and can it ever be bad? Do such experiences come from within—certain brain activity—or without—a source that can only be described as divine?

As a 17-year-old college student, I had a near-death experience (before it was categorized as such) during an automobile accident. During this intense positive experience, I said to myself, "If this is what it is like to die, it's not all bad." For I was at peace; calmly watching my "life review" play out while time seemed to stand still.

That experience forever changed how I lived the rest of my life; for I no longer feared death nor failure as I led a passionate life. People like me who have experienced near-death encounters make life-changing decisions and these "Eureka Effects" can help us all think about death as a peaceful and pleasant ending to this physical life experience.

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Your Life's Work Discovered

Callings come in many ways, some unexpected.

Such events are more prevalent than one might expect. A 2006 Gallup poll of 1,004 adults, the most recent it has done on the subject, found that 33% of Americans said the following statement “applies completely” to them: “I have had a profound religious experience or awakening that changed the direction of my life.”

A sense of calling can come through a message, a realization or a series of unlikely synchronistic events.

People of all ages and faiths, agnostics and atheists, have such experiences, yet they rarely talk about them. Sometimes words fall short of conveying the intensity of what they felt.

“The study of spiritual experience is potentially one of the most important areas of research that may be pursued by science in the next decade” writes neuroscientist Andrew Newberg in a chapter of “Transformation of Brain Structure and Spiritual Experience.”They are asking questions like: Can we distinguish between actual callings and delusions? Is a feeling of being called good for you, and can it ever be bad? Do such experiences come from within—certain brain activity—or without—a source that can only be described as divine?

As a 17-year-old college student, I had a near-death experience (before it was categorized as such) during an automobile accident. During this intense positive experience, I said to myself, "If this is what it is like to die, it's not all bad." For I was at peace; calmly watching my "life review" play out while time seemed to stand still.

That experience forever changed how I lived the rest of my life; for I no longer feared death nor failure as I led a passionate life. People like me who have experienced near-death encounters make life-changing decisions and these "Eureka Effects" can help us all think about death as a peaceful and pleasant ending to this physical life experience.